Düden Waterfall is located in Kepez district of Antalya. In various sources, it is also referred to as İskender Waterfall and Upper Düden Waterfall. It is popularly known as Düdenbaşı Waterfall.
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Two rivers with abundant water, originating from two large karst springs called Pınarbaşı, merge after a short flow and disappear into the Bıyıklı Sinkhole. The water lost in Bıyıklı Sinkhole, after traveling underground for about fourteen kilometers, emerges from one end of the Varsak Depression and sinks again from the other end of the depression after a very short flow. The water lost in Varsak comes to the surface in Düdenbaşı after an underground flow of about two kilometers.
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Even on days when no water flows from the surface, at least ten cubic meters of water rise to the surface per second from under the Düden Waterfall. The maximum flow rate of this water is ninety-four cubic meters, and the average is fifteen-sixteen cubic meters per second.
The water flowing from above in a waterfall in Düdenbaşı is the water coming from the Kepez hydroelectric power plant. Düden Stream, which is divided into two main channels in the Koyunlar regulator after Düdenbaşı, flows into the Mediterranean by making a waterfall from a travertine threshold approximately forty meters high in the east of Antalya, nine kilometers later. This is the Lower Düden Waterfall.
Source: “Düden Waterfall” Antalya from Past to Present [I. Volume], Antalya Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism (2012)
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Source: Antalya Provincial Culture and Tourism Directorate
